Solar Assistant

[mahendra]

If you are having issues with this please email me a couple items: an image of the configuration page showing the bottom section (I dont need your site info) and your location geographically. Please email me fresh even if we are already corresponding

What I am contemplating at this time is ordering several cables and crimping them and testing here. Than doing a RMA and swapping cables with you to prove out the cable. This most certainly points to cabling issues as I dont know how firmware would work for most but not for some. To me it smells like bad cables either in the crimp area or physically defective in the can processor area

Ryan@midnitesolar.com

I am having issues .

Hooked up solar assistant ,registered the site tweaked setting to Midnite .
After plugging in CAN to usb cable into Rosie can port it shuts her off every time , tried swapping ports same ,tried tweaking same.

Seems to be the same issue - got my cable from solar assistant site.

Ryan can you post a link of one from Amazon that works?
Make not sense for me to send mine for a swap.

Thanks in advance.

[FNG]

If you are having issues with this please email me a couple items: an image of the configuration page showing the bottom section (I dont need your site info) and your location geographically. Please email me fresh even if we are already corresponding

What I am contemplating at this time is ordering several cables and crimping them and testing here. Than doing a RMA and swapping cables with you to prove out the cable. This most certainly points to cabling issues as I dont know how firmware would work for most but not for some. To me it smells like bad cables either in the crimp area or physically defective in the can processor area

Ryan@midnitesolar.com

I am having issues .

Hooked up solar assistant ,registered the site tweaked setting to Midnite .
After plugging in CAN to usb cable into Rosie can port it shuts her off every time , tried swapping ports same ,tried tweaking same.

Seems to be the same issue - got my cable from solar assistant site.

Ryan can you post a link of one from Amazon that works?
Make not sense for me to send mine for a swap.

Thanks in advance.

If its shutting down Rosie it sounds like its pinned out wrong and shorting out something.

This is the one off Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMQ8GCQC?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

[mahendra]

Yep .
Seems like a definite incorrect crimp.
Solar assistant has CAN high and low swapped as shown in the screenshots from the pdf of this post versus SA site on CAN adaptor.

[mahendra]

So I re-crimped to the correct pin out.
Rosie did not did not shut down or show any errors so far .
However, no data on SA as yet.

How long should it be left to learn?
 

[FNG]

Usually its about instant, If you want to invite me on the solar assistant I can take a look for you invite ryan@midnitesolar.com and shoot me an email with the site name

[mahendra]

Thanks Ryan will do

[mahendra]

Got that Amazon can to usb adaptor but same issue .
Midnite simply not populating data on SA.
I will recrimp rj and check after a break .
I have been spending a bit too much time on that.

[mahendra]

I recrimped this time placing RJ on both ends of cable just for testing .
Cable is good on pin 4&5 .Cut one end and wire to Amazon can to rs adaptor.Plugged into Rosie and SA  same issue no data transfer from Rosie to SA.

[Off Grid Salt Spring]

What connection point does Solar Assistant monitor to read Solar PV input from a Classic 150 Charge Controller?
I have a Rosie and a Classic 150 installed for a client (becoming a common combination), and we finally hooked up the Solar Assistant monitoring with absolutely no issues. The "plant" is now being monitored. We are using a Classic 150 instead of a Hawkes Bay or Barcelona, and I would like to get the solar input on the monitoring platform. Does the Raspberry Pi pick up the solar input through the Rosie Canbus networking, or are the DC input lugs on the Rosie's terminal block monitored internally?
Thanks in advance!
Damien.

[Wizbandit]

The Classic is MODBUS or TCPIP and Rosie, Hbay and Barcelona are CANBUS.
The Classic is not available to the Solar Assistant yet.  I don't have a timeline.
Classic would need a connection to the local router via TCPIP or SA would need to use a MODBUS dongle in addition to the CANBUS dongle.

[Off Grid Salt Spring]

Thanks for clarifying. I did think that the Solar Assistant platform would give us some aggregate data from the classics at least, but I understand. I very much hope that SA (or MNSolar) will build that MOD Bus dongle soon, as it seems like an absolutely essential component, given the sheer number of Classics out there and their continued production. Better yet, what about starting to use CANBus in all newly manufactured Classics? Probably a nightmare, but incompatible network protocols within the same systems is well... not so integrated... Thank you.